I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving! I did:) Our branch President had all the missionaries over. Our branch President is Puerto Rican, so they made "arroz con wandules" not sure if I am spelling that right, but I loved it! I haven't had that since I was home, so it was good. We also ate at the Battalion, the senior couples made food for all the sisters it was really yummy, but I was stuffed! We also made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, soo good and so easy to make! theres a pic.
We had a really cool miracle! We started teaching a family. The Gonzales/Servantes. It's a mom and 3 sons, who are older. The younger one is 17 and the oldest is 26. The mom Amada knows a lot about the church because her mom was LDS and she remembers going to church and the activities, she even remembers who the prophet was (Spencer w. Kimball). She was never baptized but she wants to change her life and she wants her kids to change as well. On Wednesday we went to our appointment with them. When we got there another lady told us that Amada was alseep, so her son Alejandro came out and we were going to teach him. He was present at our last lesson and he was the most attentive out of all of them. We thought he wasn't going to be home because he said he was going back to Mexico, so we were a little bummed that we wouldn't be able to teach him, but he was there! We were going to have a lesson outside his house so that we wouldn't disrupt his mom, but he asked us if we wanted to go to Starbucks instead. We told him we wouldn't mind sitting outside, but he told us his mom was drunk and felt bad for us and didn't want us to be at his house, so we went to Starbucks. When we got there we told him that we don't drink coffee, he was stunned and we explained why, then he said that he would drink hot chocolate with us! Awesome right? So we had a lesson about the Restoration with him. The lesson was kind of everywhere because he had some questions. For some reason we ended up talking about the Second Coming, and then we asked him how he knew that Jesus Christ was the son of God, so he turned to the bible John 3:16, then we told him to read Alma 7:11-14 which talks about the Atonement and Baptism. After he finished reading, he looked up at us and said "I need to be baptized, what do I do to be baptized?" I was stunned, all I could do was smile and nod my head. We told him he had to have a desire and go to church and read the book of Mormon, he said he would, he said he wanted to know more about Joseph Smith, so we told him to read Joseph Smith's Testimony, he turned right to it and started to read in his head halfway through his testimony he turns to us again and said that it was very interesting. He said he would read the Book of Mormon in one month. It was a great lesson. He told us that he would be leaving soon back to mexico, but that he would be back in January so we were bummed again. We did a drop by to see Amada and her other 2 sons, we walk up and Alejandro is there again! We were happy. He told us that he had lost his Green Card so he couldn't go back to Mexico. You could tell that he was stressed, and Sister Lopez said "Well, have you prayed yet?" He was silent for a little and said no, so we decide to pray with him. He gave the prayer and was very sincere, we had a little lesson and left. We went back yesterday and his mom told us that he found it and that he knew Heavenly Father answered his prayers! Heavenly Father always answers our prayers. It was a good week!
What alejandro read was Alma 11-14:
"11 And he shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will take upon him the pains and the sicknesses of his people.
12 And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to their infirmities.
13 Now the Spirit knoweth all things; nevertheless the Son of God suffereth according to the flesh that he might take upon him the sins of his people, that he might blot out their transgressions according to the power of his deliverance; and now behold, this is the testimony which is in me.
14 Now I say unto you that ye must repent, and be born again; for the Spirit saith if ye are not born again ye cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven; therefore come and be baptized unto repentance, that ye may be washed from your sins, that ye may have faith on the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world, who is mighty to save and to cleanse from all unrighteousness."
Love you all!
-Hermana Recinos!
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